Definition of dept

1. depth [ n ] extent downward or backward or inwardExamples:: "the depth of the water""depth of a shelf""depth of a closet"

Used in print:

(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

In following this general principle , Mason provides the observer with a natural eye progression from foreground to background , and the illusion of depth is instantly created .

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

The greater the depth of the water , the greater is the speed of the wave ; Lagrange 's law says that its velocity is equal to the square_root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due_to gravity .

The greater the depth of the water , the greater is the speed of the wave ; Lagrange 's law says that its velocity is equal to the square_root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due_to gravity .

The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami_Bay brought to the surface and battered to death huge numbers of fishes that normally live at a depth of 3000 feet .

By means of charts showing wave travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations , it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time_of_arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under_way at any spot in the Pacific .

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive - the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response .

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

Owing to the restrained usages characteristic of 19_th century America , these letters usually were stereotyped and revealed little depth of feeling .

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

At the moment of crisis it had no_more depth than an old school tie .

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience , in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself .

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

I would say , too , that the study of literature tends to give a person what I shall call depth .